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Questdog · 03-24-2014, 12:14 AM

A close wildcard race is like a close contest for Miss Congeniality....who cares?.....other than the fans of the teams involved.....and since your OOTP teams have no fans, absolutely no one will care....

You have to have at least 8 teams in a division to maximize the pennant races.....6 teams will give you some really good 2 team races occasionally, but hardly ever 3 or 4 team races. And usually when it IS a 3 team race in a division, it's because they all are weak compared to the other division and who cares about who's gonna finish with 85 wins and the chance to get swamped by the good team in the playoffs?

10 team leagues have really grown on me lately. With two of them, you are almost guaranteed of having at least one of them come down to the wire nearly every season. 8 teams are fine, but then you can't play 162 game schedules. 32 teams in 4 8 team divisions is a good setup (you can play 162 game schedules), but since I follow all the teams very closely, it's just too big a league for me. Cutting that in half to 16 teams in 1 league with 2 divisions is a setup I have played a lot.

So my advice would be to choose one of the following options:
1) Just do away with the divisions an play 2 12 team leagues. They did this in the late 1800's and found that it was hard to get fans to show up for an 11th place vs. 12th place series in September. But we don't have to worry about that in OOTP, though you can't play 162 game schedules.

2) Contract to 20 teams and go to two 10 team leagues.

3) Expand to 32 teams, if you are up for it.

One other reason I like to not have any playoffs except the World Series is that OOTP keeps track of the post season stats, but not the World Series stats. So you never have any idea of who the all-time leaders in the Series are. With no playoffs, the post season stats ARE the World Series stats and you can keep track of the records.....

03-24-2014, 12:14 AM	#7
Questdog Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: In a dark, damp cave where I'm training slugs to run the bases...... Posts: 16,142	A close wildcard race is like a close contest for Miss Congeniality....who cares?.....other than the fans of the teams involved.....and since your OOTP teams have no fans, absolutely no one will care.... You have to have at least 8 teams in a division to maximize the pennant races.....6 teams will give you some really good 2 team races occasionally, but hardly ever 3 or 4 team races. And usually when it IS a 3 team race in a division, it's because they all are weak compared to the other division and who cares about who's gonna finish with 85 wins and the chance to get swamped by the good team in the playoffs? 10 team leagues have really grown on me lately. With two of them, you are almost guaranteed of having at least one of them come down to the wire nearly every season. 8 teams are fine, but then you can't play 162 game schedules. 32 teams in 4 8 team divisions is a good setup (you can play 162 game schedules), but since I follow all the teams very closely, it's just too big a league for me. Cutting that in half to 16 teams in 1 league with 2 divisions is a setup I have played a lot. So my advice would be to choose one of the following options: 1) Just do away with the divisions an play 2 12 team leagues. They did this in the late 1800's and found that it was hard to get fans to show up for an 11th place vs. 12th place series in September. But we don't have to worry about that in OOTP, though you can't play 162 game schedules. 2) Contract to 20 teams and go to two 10 team leagues. 3) Expand to 32 teams, if you are up for it. One other reason I like to not have any playoffs except the World Series is that OOTP keeps track of the post season stats, but not the World Series stats. So you never have any idea of who the all-time leaders in the Series are. With no playoffs, the post season stats ARE the World Series stats and you can keep track of the records..... Last edited by Questdog; 03-24-2014 at 12:31 AM.